Obviously it's not true because photos and footage of soviet life shows them wearing the same shit as any other country at the time, but the lie had to come from somewhere, right?
A man stooped to obey. The cockney accent had disappeared; Winston suddenly realized whose voice it was that he had heard a few moments ago on the telescreen. Mr Charrington was still wearing his old velvet jacket....
Closest thing I can think of is the cultural revolution, where dressing certain ways could definitely mark you as suspect. I could imagine that's where they got it from, but the trope might also predate that, idk.
The overalls look like prison uniforms so I'd imagine litter anti soviet dystopia propaganda with some overalls to make the people in it look like prisoners. That way anyone consuming that content will correlate communism with being in prison and the dehumanising effects of incarceration. I guess?
When you say grey overalls i immediately think of the 1984 movie. And since 1984 was incredibly pervasive anti communist propaganda it might just come from that.
Liberals try to read a useful book after high school impossible challenge. Most of them tapped out after Harry potter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_fashion
However, Bolshevik ideology opposed Western fashion consumption as an intrinsically capitalist practice. Western fashion emphasized both economic status and gender differences under a system that sought to deemphasize both.[2]......By 1927, however, the magazines’ message was consistent: women should be judged on their capability for work, not their appearance. Fashion, as a beauty aid, was therefore bourgeois and detrimental to socialist society.[4]......
